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A Desert in Bohemia
By Walsh, Jill Paton & Paton Walsh, Jill
- ISBN
- 978-0-31226-263-1
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, c2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2001
Adult/High School At the end of World War II, in a fictitious area of Czechoslovakia, a young woman narrowly escapes a horrifying massacre. She stumbles into an empty castle and finds an abandoned baby. Thus begins a story that follows the survivors of two families through the tumultuous postwar period and the Communist takeover of their country. Eliska struggles to bury her traumatic memories and find a place in the emerging society for herself and the child. Jiri is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
